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Eric Lombard, Minister of the Economy, and Amélie de Montchalin, Minister responsible for public accounts, during a question session in the government in the National Assembly, in Paris, April 30, 2025.

New spring and new hunt for reckless spending. In 2025, the federal government, nonetheless keen to not enhance taxes, was searching for forty billion euros in financial savings. Suddenly, environmental defenders marvel: will ecology endure new cuts through the subsequent finance invoice? Since February 2024, inexperienced investments, similar to Maprimerenov’ou the electrification of autos, have already been diminished. And the budgetary discussions, that are barely beginning, relaunch an outdated debate, that of the “brown niches”, that’s to say all of the tax expenditure which helps sure sectors however are dangerous to the climatic trajectories of France.

“The“ brown niches ”, it’s a bit like someone who stops smoking little by little but is checked with fast food at the same time, it doesn’t make much sense in the endquips Emeline Notari, responsible for monitoring the financing of the transition within the Action Climate network. We cannot have a goal of carbon neutrality in 2050 and wake up in 2046 or 2048. It is now that we must think about compensation, to accompanying, it is now that we prevent the crises of the future. »»

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